Aug 11 – 17

Learning is like a design in water,
contemplation like a design on the side of the wall,
meditation like a design in stone.
 
–Adept Godrapka, Hermit of Go Cliffs

Practice Meetings

Tuesday Aug 13, 8:30am

Friday Aug 16, 7:00pm

This Week’s Reading

Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path White Clouds, Chapter 56, “Full Awareness of Breathing”.

This Week’s Koan

Blue Cliff Record #91, Book of Serenity #25

Yanguan and the Rhinoceros Fan

One day, Enkan called to his attendant, “Bring me the rhinoceros fan.”

The attendant said, “It is broken.”

Enkan said, “If the fan is already broken, bring me the rhinoceros himself.”

The attendant gave no answer.

Shifuku drew a circle and wrote the ideograph “ox” in it.

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